Question

Imagine that a student in your classroom exhibits delayed behavior, or behavior that falls significantly outside of typical development. As a teacher how can you offer help to him or her?

Answer 1

Some of the most common behavioural disorders that might be occuring in children are the following:

1) intellectually delayed behavior

2) Speech delayed children

3) Emotionally delayed children

* Intellectually delayed behaviour : There are many intellectual delays that can be seen in children and that might also lead to the contribution of behavioral problems. Children with these sort of disorders might experience the academic delays and also this might made the child more frustrated when they are not able to learn as fast as their freinds and group members. They might feel more embarrassed and disappointed when they are deeling with a sitution of discouragement might cause them to act out or behaviour odd in the classroom. When children are more frustrated due to their continuing academic struggles, they feel disappointed and will think about being hopeless to try to succeed in the classroom. The children exhibits the symptoms like challenging the teachers by avoiding the homework or schoolwork, making arguments with classmates or bunking the classes or becoming the drop out when they become more older

* Speech delayed children : Children who is having the problems with the language delays or the speech delay might get frustrated when they are not able to clearly communicate with thw students , classmates, teachers , parents or their elders. This is because of the inability of the student to communicate the thoughts or ideas effectively, and also when others are not willing to communicate with them due to the lack of understandability inthe conversation. This problem of speech delay will lead to the loss of low-self esteem.

* Emotionally delayed children: The emotional delays are the most common and is often exhibited by the children with noticeable behavioral differences or changes. Children those who are struggling to meet certain developmental milestones will have behavioral or emotional problems and exhibits some changes that are not common for children of their age.

The role of teacher in identiofication and the providance of help to those children with delayed behaviour.

- The teacher must know each and every student in detail. they must be aware about their character.

- The teacher should identify the delayed behaviour in the children

- The teacher should exhibit encouraging behaviour to the students those who are exhibiting problems of delayed behaviour characteristics.

- The teacher must encourage the abilities and innate talent of each students and help them to get mastery in those special talents or abilities or the particualr skills.

- The teacher must be calm and approach those student with freindly interaction.

- The teacher should also enhance the students to maintain a behavioural pattern which are more appropriate for the situation

- The teacher should pay individual attention to those children to help them in academic skill dvelopment and also in development of individual skills.

- The teacher should ensure that the peer group members of the particular students might be acting in support to those students.

- The acting out behaviour of the students should not be agreed and the teacher should correct those students at the right time.

- The teacher should increase the praise to their childrn activity.

- The teacher should act as a mentor and also should be a model to the students.

- The communicative interaction of the teacher with the students should be noticed and must be more effective in accordaance with the students delayed behaviour characteristics.

- The students must be provided with emotional support and encouragement by the students.